Guwan Jones is the Vice president- Human Resources and Chief Diversity Officer of Baylor Scott & White Health. She is an ongoing advocate for underserved and vulnerable patient populations. Through her work with three healthcare systems and other not-for-profits, she has worked on issues such as funding to increase access to health insurance for children, focusing community resources on providing health care access for low socio-economic populations, organizing resources for HIV/AIDS patients, designing meaningful interventions for minority diabetes patients, and designing analytic dashboards to measure human capital investment and patient outcomes.
Guwan has helped advance BSWH’s work around access and health care improvement and produced the Baylor Health Care System Health Equity Performance Analysis.
She participated in the nationally recognized Disparities Leadership Program designed to tackle racial and ethnic disparities in health care led by the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, MA.
Guwan served on the CitySquare board, an organization supporting basic needs for low socioeconomic Dallas families and homeless communities, and currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Southern Methodist University Latino Leadership Initiative (LLI).
Guwan was featured as a case study in the 2014 book “Be the one to start change at work and in life: Make Waves” because of her reputation for marrying the business case for working in parallel on the diverse needs of both talent and patients’.
Guwan holds a Master of Public Health from the University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth and a Bachelor of Science in Health Science from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Guwan is also a Certified Health Education Specialist and received the 2008 U.S. Surgeon General’s Healthy Youth for a Healthy Future Champion Award.
